Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building Service Employees' International Union (with a membership of some 70,000 charwomen, chambermaids, elevator operators, window washers), a $25,000-a-year salary, an unlimited expense account. A little-known figure he might have remained, had not crusty, crusading Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who last fortnight got William Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. studio labor in Hollywood, sent to jail in Illinois to serve out an 18-year-old sentence for pandering) grown curious about Mr. Scalise...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, repeating an incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...
...Pegler has mental halitosis...
...local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...another humanitarian, part-time head, and the same executives who now run the Guild will continue to run it. Still unsettled last week was the question that agitates numerous Guildsmen outside Manhattan : the Guild's domination by a small clique of New York newspapermen. Likewise unsettled was Columnist Pegler's question: Communism's influence inside the Guild...